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I wished that I'd grow up and make my living as a writer. Thanks, monkey's paw.
Heavy lurking, light posting, righteous blocking. Oakland.
Heavy lurking, light posting, righteous blocking. Oakland.
My 3,473rd biggest fear about omnipresent AI: That it will quietly judge me when I use my phone’s calculator for relatively simple math.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
My 3,473rd biggest fear about omnipresent AI: That it will quietly judge me when I use my phone’s calculator for relatively simple math.
Wait, today is the 50th anniversary of Born to Run *and* Walt Kelly’s 112 birthday? Well, that maps out the rest of my day quite nicely.
August 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Wait, today is the 50th anniversary of Born to Run *and* Walt Kelly’s 112 birthday? Well, that maps out the rest of my day quite nicely.
“Cynically triangulating” is flawless. Every “abandon ‘the groups’” hack consultant should hear those words in the follow-up.
This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.
I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.
July 17, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“Cynically triangulating” is flawless. Every “abandon ‘the groups’” hack consultant should hear those words in the follow-up.
The Superman movie has a great heart, a moral center, despite being overstuffed with world building and a kitchen sink approach to unrestrained CGI chaos, but the real blessing of that film is that a week later, I come home from my LCS with two (2!) comics starring Krypto.
July 17, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The Superman movie has a great heart, a moral center, despite being overstuffed with world building and a kitchen sink approach to unrestrained CGI chaos, but the real blessing of that film is that a week later, I come home from my LCS with two (2!) comics starring Krypto.
Here are a few random seconds of Chris Isaak last night at The Guild, a beautiful, intimate venue in Menlo Park. Great voice, great band, a fun and funny entertainer.
July 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Here are a few random seconds of Chris Isaak last night at The Guild, a beautiful, intimate venue in Menlo Park. Great voice, great band, a fun and funny entertainer.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, San Francisco. Great fucking show.
May 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, San Francisco. Great fucking show.
Every time I let my cursor pause on a new line, the stupid AI my company enabled in google docs offers "Help me write" ... and I'm like, okay, sure. But it never brings me whiskey, chocolate, a dog-eared stack of comics ... Nothing.
This is why I say you can't apply gen AI to the writing process.
This is why I say you can't apply gen AI to the writing process.
April 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Every time I let my cursor pause on a new line, the stupid AI my company enabled in google docs offers "Help me write" ... and I'm like, okay, sure. But it never brings me whiskey, chocolate, a dog-eared stack of comics ... Nothing.
This is why I say you can't apply gen AI to the writing process.
This is why I say you can't apply gen AI to the writing process.
Finished @lailalalami.com’s The Dream Hotel today. Beautifully written, disturbingly relevant. A future of relentless surveillance where people are arrested for no crime, and the algorithm can’t be appealed.
And it ends with a message that seems tailored for this exact moment, like a gift.
And it ends with a message that seems tailored for this exact moment, like a gift.
March 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Finished @lailalalami.com’s The Dream Hotel today. Beautifully written, disturbingly relevant. A future of relentless surveillance where people are arrested for no crime, and the algorithm can’t be appealed.
And it ends with a message that seems tailored for this exact moment, like a gift.
And it ends with a message that seems tailored for this exact moment, like a gift.
Section 31 felt like basic TV crap. Quirky buddy team that's full of forced quips, edgy hostility and one-trait characters. Flat-out embarrassing. And trying to fit a season's worth of TV into 90 min. created an incomprehensible action spectacle that's not even trying to be Star Trek.
January 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Section 31 felt like basic TV crap. Quirky buddy team that's full of forced quips, edgy hostility and one-trait characters. Flat-out embarrassing. And trying to fit a season's worth of TV into 90 min. created an incomprehensible action spectacle that's not even trying to be Star Trek.
A friend & I watched Dark City, which The Matrix unfairly (?) swept under a rug. Fun, not great. Story is like a strong first draft. Stylized acting fits a stylized world whose aesthetic admirably uses every dollar in a limited budget. But it's no Blade Runner. The visuals linger, but not the story.
January 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
A friend & I watched Dark City, which The Matrix unfairly (?) swept under a rug. Fun, not great. Story is like a strong first draft. Stylized acting fits a stylized world whose aesthetic admirably uses every dollar in a limited budget. But it's no Blade Runner. The visuals linger, but not the story.
Self-medicating w/movies (& wine). Hardest thing to write in film is a rom-com's Act 2 climax: Perfect couple breaks up hard (later to reunite). Most movies fuck up w/something dumb, petty, implausible.
RYE LANE is funny, charming & original straight through, AND it nails that turn. 5/5, no notes.
RYE LANE is funny, charming & original straight through, AND it nails that turn. 5/5, no notes.
January 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Self-medicating w/movies (& wine). Hardest thing to write in film is a rom-com's Act 2 climax: Perfect couple breaks up hard (later to reunite). Most movies fuck up w/something dumb, petty, implausible.
RYE LANE is funny, charming & original straight through, AND it nails that turn. 5/5, no notes.
RYE LANE is funny, charming & original straight through, AND it nails that turn. 5/5, no notes.
The End We Start From is a quietly apocalyptic (not post-) movie that is an uncomfortable watch. The rule that anything with Jodie Comer will be excellent holds true, and director Mahalia Belo delivers a film whose feel and flow is unlike anything I’ve seen. Highly recommended.
January 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The End We Start From is a quietly apocalyptic (not post-) movie that is an uncomfortable watch. The rule that anything with Jodie Comer will be excellent holds true, and director Mahalia Belo delivers a film whose feel and flow is unlike anything I’ve seen. Highly recommended.
A little winter sun makes a cat’s Saturday.
January 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A little winter sun makes a cat’s Saturday.
Finally, and for obvious reasons, reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Published in ‘93, set in ‘24-27 (I think; still reading), in an LA devastated by social breakdown, crime, climate change and fire.
And she just keeps nailing human nature and the current moment.
And she just keeps nailing human nature and the current moment.
January 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Finally, and for obvious reasons, reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Published in ‘93, set in ‘24-27 (I think; still reading), in an LA devastated by social breakdown, crime, climate change and fire.
And she just keeps nailing human nature and the current moment.
And she just keeps nailing human nature and the current moment.
For the record, Christmas occurred at exactly 2pm PST ON Dec. 24.
December 24, 2024 at 10:22 PM
For the record, Christmas occurred at exactly 2pm PST ON Dec. 24.
I'm a big Cleopatra in Space fan (like any reasonable human), but suddenly I realize how much I also want a Kate Bishop by Maihack series.
December 24, 2024 at 3:22 AM
I'm a big Cleopatra in Space fan (like any reasonable human), but suddenly I realize how much I also want a Kate Bishop by Maihack series.
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December 19, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Post a gif of a movie you could watch over and over and over...
December 18, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Post a gif of a movie you could watch over and over and over...
What even IS this? Other than a potential 1.8k blocklist of followback grifters?
December 18, 2024 at 1:29 AM
What even IS this? Other than a potential 1.8k blocklist of followback grifters?
Driving, listening to The Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and there’s an insanely annoying tappity-tap percussion in the left channel. Figured it’s just the 2019 remix, but on the original (as labeled on Apple Music), it’s there.
Waiting all these years to trap me on the (US) driver’s side.
Waiting all these years to trap me on the (US) driver’s side.
December 17, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Driving, listening to The Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and there’s an insanely annoying tappity-tap percussion in the left channel. Figured it’s just the 2019 remix, but on the original (as labeled on Apple Music), it’s there.
Waiting all these years to trap me on the (US) driver’s side.
Waiting all these years to trap me on the (US) driver’s side.
Watched eps 1 &2 of McCartney 3, 2, 1 last night. Excellent. If they make “Michelle” interesting right off, what wonders must eps 3-6 hold?
Wife (late to the Beatles/a George girl): This is great. I always thought Paul was annoying.
Me: Oh, he IS annoying. He’s just also Paul freakin’ McCartney.
Wife (late to the Beatles/a George girl): This is great. I always thought Paul was annoying.
Me: Oh, he IS annoying. He’s just also Paul freakin’ McCartney.
December 15, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Watched eps 1 &2 of McCartney 3, 2, 1 last night. Excellent. If they make “Michelle” interesting right off, what wonders must eps 3-6 hold?
Wife (late to the Beatles/a George girl): This is great. I always thought Paul was annoying.
Me: Oh, he IS annoying. He’s just also Paul freakin’ McCartney.
Wife (late to the Beatles/a George girl): This is great. I always thought Paul was annoying.
Me: Oh, he IS annoying. He’s just also Paul freakin’ McCartney.
Now playing in my head nonstop through to the new year
December 14, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Now playing in my head nonstop through to the new year
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Trust and Safety *is* the product.
I'm running out of different ways to say this. 🤷🏿♂️
I'm running out of different ways to say this. 🤷🏿♂️
December 12, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Trust and Safety *is* the product.
I'm running out of different ways to say this. 🤷🏿♂️
I'm running out of different ways to say this. 🤷🏿♂️